Jumping on the +1 bandwagon, to give you +1 angel turned atheist~

[dancingonapin]

Hello everyone, this is a new player, Kat here, bringing you Aziraphale from the novel Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman! In his world, Aziraphale was an angel (a Principality, specifically) who was partially responsible for stopping the apocalypse by being completely incompetent. He was formerly one of the guardian angels who guarded the Garden of Eden after Adam and Eve were banished from it; he also became very good friends with the Serpent demon, Crowley, who was responsible for getting them kicked out!

Reincarnated, Aziraphale is now an ordinary college professor at Locke City University named Francis Fell, who teaches courses in theology, and is also an atheist! And he likes his life just the way it is. To him, the events of Save the Earth will be more than a disruption to his lifestyle; rather, it will mean the slow and steady shattering of his fragile perception of reality, and all of the hysteria and bitter laughter that follows.

More detail about his preincarnated or reincarnated life can be read at his app over here!

My preferred method of contact is either by my plurk, nyanface, or via my AIM, nyanface. Please feel free to add me to either! Also feel free to contact me in your most desired method of contact if you so wish, whether it's through email, PMing, etc., all of my contact info is already up in the google docs document~

I'm really looking forward to playing with all of you! Don't stop me now!!

Comments

[gogoghostpowers]

Hahaha I've only ever passed by Milton Keynes on trains, never been in the city proper. A friend of mine from there tells me it's an accurate description, though!

Eeeee hahaha I love meeting other people who watched DP!!! They used to be so rare, but now it seems everyone knows about it. I'm excited to see what happens too, I haven't planned it all out but it should involve a lot of shenanigans and embarrassment.

Danny and Francis can try bonding over their weird families!! It'll be great. "My parents once thought food was a government-created hoax to keep everyone complacent, so we were only allowed to drink water for three days until my sister passed out."

[dancingonapin]

My dad actually STILL makes jokes about Danny Phantom, I can't claim to have seen every episode, but I did see a good deal of them back in the day.

Also that's... wonderful and terrible simultaneously. Francis's family, on his mother's side, has this wonderfully weird long-lasting family tradition where every living member of his family at any given time is of a different religion and/or denomination. You can imagine he's got quite a few weirdos in his family who are in extremely obscure and/or controversial religions.

[gogoghostpowers]

Ahahaha oh wow, that's pretty cool! What kind of jokes are they? Please let them be shitty puns. (Also, you don't want to see every episode. They got really, really bad towards the show's end. You have probably seen most of the episodes worth watching already.)

Oh man I'm just imagining where those religions could overlap with Danny's parents' weird beliefs, hahaha. There's a religion based on Stargate, which the Fentons think is itself based on an ancient religion that was rediscovered and repurposed for television. ~oooooh~

[dancingonapin]

Mostly he just quotes, really loudly: "Flying rules! Falling stinks." This is what happens when you grow up watching silly cartoons with your dad. (And yeah, I'm aware... oh boy am I aware. I think the whole series really is a misfortune of a good concepts being simplified and construed for the sake of being more 'family friendly.' Thanks Nickelodeon.)

Oh my goodness, that is wonderful. I'm sort of planning to have this running gag that any mention of a religion will result in Francis bringing up [insert distant relative here] being of that religion. I'm already putting together a list to make sure I keep it consistent!!

[gogoghostpowers]

Ahahaha that is a pretty choice quote! (Ahahaha tbh I think working in the constraints of "family friendly" made it go in some cool directions, but also botched up a lot of great things that could've been. Double-edged sword and all that! It's Hartman's fault, he shouldn't have tried to make a show about dead people for little kids.)

Dude, sweet. Put Stargatian down as one of the religions. (Then there are offshoot factions, like the Church of SG-1 and Atlantis Chapel. They don't get along well.)

[dancingonapin]

I think TV's been letting modern cartoon series get away with a lot less kid friendly stuff lately... oh what could've been if Danny Phantom was made just a little bit further down the line. I feel like the show's premise just conflicted with the audience, like they should have bumped up their target audience by about two or three years, and they wouldn't have had to turn 'ghosts' into 'just random monsters from an alternate dimension we call ghosts'... might've even made the pay closer attention to their plot holes. Oh but I digress, there was some really great stuff in there as it was, which is obviously why it left me craving for more hahaha.

Totally, totally will, someone who will probably be related to his Satanist cousin.

[gogoghostpowers]

Well, I am pretty sure the 'random monsters' thing is just something that Hartman said in an interview to appease the moral guardians because there are at least three instances I can think of off the top of my head where ghosts are explicitly stated in the show to be deceased humans. Plus, Hartman wanted it to be lighthearted so regardless of its audience it would've been the way it was, I think....and it was rated TVY7, where a lot of popular cartoons today are TVPG and thus can get away with a lot more. Who knows! BUT HEY, if you're craving more of it then it's a good thing I'm here to FILL THAT EMPTY, GNAWING VOID IN YOUR LIFE

OH DUDE, Satanists too?! Man you are really gonna have 'em all, aren't you? I'd suggest some more but I don't know much about any real life religions, I can only further propose silly ones. ....Any Pastafarians in there, maybe?

[dancingonapin]

YES THANK YOU, Danny Phantom player! Here to give meaning to my life.

I definitely want to try to hit all the major ones, as well as plenty of obscure ones, all for fun and ~~learning~~ of course. And yes, Francis has two young twin nephews; one is a Rastafarian, the other is a Pastafarian!